From: dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Dana Countryman
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:45 PM
To: dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dotcomformat] Re: Jean Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman in
concert in Berlin
--- In dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com, "mate_stubb" <mate_stubb@...> wrote:
>
> Dana,
>
> Perhaps you could tell those of us who don't know the story, how you
> got hooked up with JJP in the first place, and how long you have been
> working together.
>
> Moe>>
Hi Chuck, Morb and Moe --
Thanks for asking. I have been friends with JJ since 1994, when I wrote him
a fan letter. I
used to cart his LPs to high school with me, way back in 1972. We hit it
off, and when I
published the magazine, I interviewed him at least three times. He was on
the cover twice,
and along the way, I became his official biographer.
http://www.danacountryman.com/csm/back_issues.html
I also became his webmaster, a few years back.
http://www.jeanjacquesperrey.com
Before all this, I was a professional musician,
http://www.danacountryman.com/Pink/things.html
and In 2003, he and I recorded a track in Paris. That paved the way for the
CD we have co-
written and plan to release in August. The focus is on happy music, ranging
from ragtime
to children's music to sixties rock to techno dance.
http://www.jeanjacquesperrey.com/jjp/JJ-DC/JJ-DC.html
We are planning two CD release parties / concerts during the first week in
August -- one
in Seattle and one in San Francisco. I'm sure I'll lug my Dotcom to the
Seattle event, near
where I live.
It's one of those rare friendships, where you almost instantly connect with
someone, and it
just keeps on going. So, we've been friends for 12 years now, and have
stayed at each
others' houses, etc.
After this CD is out, I wil be finishing the book I have started on his
life. I have interest
from a London publisher, so that's my project for 2007. We recorded most of
our CD, here
in my studio in September, using the (mostly) Dotcom intensely.
I have to say that at age 77, JJ is still an intensely creative guy, and
it's a pleasure to
collaborate and play music with him. He is also probably more rock and roll
that I am!
He has a very young mind for a senior citizen, and the (mostly) 22-year olds
in the
audience in Berlin obviously picked up on that.
Just a word of history: he owned the 2nd Moog ever sold, (Carroll Sound),
with Wendy
Carlos, getting the first one. His first Moog LP "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations"
(with Gershon
Kingsley) came out at least a year before Switched-On Bach.
Cheers,
- Dana